Gmail Attachment Issues

Android will allow a user to put more than one app on it that does something, for example send email So you have your email account app out of box, your gmail account and let's say a third party super duper email app that you can't live without installed on your phone. When you click the email link, it will launch a picker that lists these three apps. You select the one that you want to process the message and it does it. All fine and dandy. Once that picker comes up, you're out of your app and in the picker app. In other words, you don't have much control over error handling. Here's the problem: Gmail can't process attachments. It throws an exception that can't be caught and I can't control what gets processed by the app. For example, having gmail handle a link to an web site instead of putting the attachment right into the message. The only workaround that I have is a link in the message (the images I'm trying to send are on a web server anyway) to the image which should make it work on every app. Android bug report http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=27269&q=gmail%20attachments&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Owner%20Summary%20Stars Google http://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/forum/#!category-topic/gmail/android/PsZ68HiLc_o http://thenextweb.com/mobile/2010/11/10/google-acknowledges-android-gmail-attachment-issues-invites-users-to-help-debug/